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The  Jeanes  Bequest  to  Swarthmore  College  .      JOSEPH  SWAIN 

Across  the  Atlantic  (Poem) ROBERT  FROST 

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THE     INDEPENDENT 


ago,  inspired  by  the  teachings  of  George 
Fox,  William  Penn  left  all  the  oppor- 
tunities of  the  Old  World  to  come  to  the 
new  and  establish  this  colony  on  the 
Delaware.  His  "holy  experiment"  em- 
bodied the  most  advanced  ideals  of  civil 
and  religious  liberty  of  his  time.  He 
tried  to  found  a  state  in  which  every 
man  would  have  the  power  to  follow  the 
light  of  his  own  individual  soul.  •  Can 
the  board  of  managers  of  Swarthmore 
College  aflford  to  stultify  themselves  by 
denying  the  future  right  of  individual 
judgment  to  themselves  and  to  their  suc- 
cessors, even  in  matters  deemed  by  them 


of  minor  importance?  The  college 
should  not  be  responsible  for  an  act 
which  would  belie  the  fundamental 
teachings  of  the  founder  of  our  society, 
the  sage  and  seer  of  Swarthmore  HdU ; 
nor  should  it  belittle  the  faith  of  the 
founder  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Penn- 
sylvania. Swarthmore's  historic  position 
has  been  one  of  freedom  That  freedom 
is  above  the  price  of  endowments. 

These  are  a  few  of  the  considerations 
which  led  to  the  belief  that  the  condition- 
al gift  of  Anna  T.  Jeanes  should  be  de- 
clined. 

SwARTHMOREj     Pa. 


Across  the  Atlantic 


BY  ROBERT  FROST 


Leaning^    one     speaks     between    surrounding 

hands, 
With  lashes  lowered  as  deeming  not  to  see, 
.A.nd  the  tide  smooths  the  beaches  at  her  feet. 
"Sister,"  she  says,  ''I  faintly  hear  thy  word. 
But  hear  thy  word  in  heart-beats — speak  again. 
Darkness    comes    down    upon    you    speaking 

there ; 
The    waves    go    toward    you    standing    under 

stars; 
They  come  to  me  in  sunlight  further  west; 
Somewhere   between   they  leap   to   the   wind's 

love. 
It  is  the  old  sea  there,  no  man's  abode. 
Not  time  shall  make  less  desert  than  it  is. 
And  yet  no  more,  no  more  the  sundering  sea. 

"Once  she  held  in  the  hollow  of  her  wave 
The  little,  tossing  missive  boat  you  sent. 
Days,    nights,    she    had    it    in    her    power    to 

whelm. 
But  paltered  with  its  fate  and  let  it  pass. 
Time  to  come  then  between  us  for  all  time ! 
The  ship,  light-riding,  came  and  went  again, 
Empty  of  India's  jewels,  to  its  port 
To  find  before  it  there  da  Gama's  fame 
And  nought  to  match  against  his  prize  in  hand 
But  truth  that  lit  the  yards  like  Elmo's  fire. 
And  the  old  sea  was  less  the  sundering  sea. 
She  has  strewn  wrecks   since  then   and  ships 

from  port 


She  has  hurled  back  ashore  and  banked  with 

sand. 
Too  many  have  come  with  sails,  to  sink  them 

all; 
And  now  they  trample  flat  the  waves  they  run. 
Ever  the  sea  is  less  the  sundering  sea. 

"But  demon-like  she  hides  her  secret  thought ; 
She  veils  her  face  in  mist  and  folds  her  hands; 
She  murmurs  'What  have  I  to  do  with  men?' 
What  had  she  ever,  space  made  palpable, 
What  but  keep  aching  heart   from   heart   too 

long. 
What   but   keep   life   too   long    from   half  ,  the 

world? 
But  she  has  said  it,  little  has  she  left 
Could  she  but  hear  the  word  we  pass  today — 
Perhaps  she  hears  in  the  green  moated  gloom. 
Or  feels  like  leaden  touch  thru  all  her  cold, 
Like  sea-stones  smitten  feebly  under  sea. 
Like  bell-stroke  deadened  downward  from  the 

keel. 
I  deem  she  hears.     Could  she  but  comprehend 
And  say  if  T  speak  less  than  truth  to  thee: — • 
It  needs  not   shipping  to  come   safely  thru. 
Sister;  it  needs  not  ropes  of  iron'  more 
To  hold,  or  she  will  part  me  from  thy  word: 
Thy   softest    word    shall    reach    me    thru    her 

storm. 
Sister,  dominion  has  past  from  her  brow — 
Forget  the  sea,  no  more  the  sundering  sea." 
Derry,  N.  H. 


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Metropolitan  Operas 

Enrico  Caruso  is  undoubtedly  the 
g^reatest  lyric  tenor  of  the  time,  yet  he 
has  his  limitations,  and  some  of  them  are 
surprising.  Thus,  for  several  seasons, 
Mr.  Conried  endeavored  to  induce  him  to 
assume  the  part  of  Manrico  in  "]}  Trova- 
tore,"  and  was  finally  compelled  to  place 
it  in  the  hands  of  Heinrich  Knote,  who 
was  remarkably  successful  in  it.  Possi- 
bly this  aroused  Caruso's  jealousy;  at 
any  rate,  altho  the  Munich  tenor  was 
here  again,  Caruso  took  the  role  into  his 
own  hands  this  time.  The  result  proved 
that  his  hesitancy  was  not  without  just 
cause.  He  had  to  transpose  one  of  the 
principal  arias  a  whole  tone  down,  and 
there  was  evidence  that  Verdi's  style  in 
this  opera  is  somewhat  too  robust  for  his 
voice.  Nevertheless,  he  sang  most  of 
the  music  beautifully,  and  with  Emma 
Eames  as  Leonora  and  Louise  Homer  as 
Azucena  the  opera  has  proved  one  of  the 
big  successes  of  the  season. 

Next  to  Caruso,  the  artist  who  has  the 
greatest  drawing  power  at  the  Metropol- 
itan is  Geraldine  Farrar.  Her  voice  has 
improved  since  last  season  in  beauty,  flex- 
ibility and  evenness,  and  as  an  actress  she 
recalls  Emma  Calve  in  her  best  diys. 
Some  object  to  her  methods  because  she 
is  no  respecter  of  traditions,  but  insists 
on  doing  everything  her  own  way ;  to 
others  this  constitutes  one  of  the  princi- 
pal charms  of  her  art.  It  gives  it  an  in- 
dividuality that  musical  epicures  enjoy 
greatly.  Moreover,  her  way  is  usually 
better    than    the    traditional    one — more 


realistic  and  interesting.  She  is  a  pupil, 
to  the  present  day,  of  Lilli  Lehmann,  yet 
she  does  not  imitate  her  ways  slavishly. 
Instead  of  going  to  the  opera  house  to  see 
how  others  do  it.  she  studies  the  text  and 
the  score  and  tries  to  find  out  for  herself 
how  the  composer  wants  things  done. 

Of  the  eighteen  roles  in  Miss  Farrar's 
repertory  New  Yorkers  have  now  had  a 
chance  to  hear  ten,  the  latest  two  being 
Violetta  in  "La  Traviata,"  and  Mignon 
in  Ambroise  Thomas's  opera.  She  does 
not,  of  course,  execute  the  florid  music  in 
Verdi's  operas  with  the  brilliancy  of  Ma- 
dame Tetrazzini,  but  she  sings  the  melo- 
dies more  sweetly  and  expressively,  and 
as  an  actress  she  is  more  sympathetic  than 
any  of  her  rivals  in  this  role.  It  has  been 
truly  said  of  her  that  her  Violetta  dies 
"not  of  phthisis,  aided  and  developed  by 
dissipation,  but  of  a  broken  heart."  Her 
Mignon  is  simply  enchanting  in  its  di- 
verse aspects,  as  a  gypsy  girl,  a  jealous 
rival  of  Filina  in  the  attire  of  a  page,  and 
in  her  native  land  as  an  Italian  beauty. 

The  Filina  in  this  revival  of  a  once 
very  popular  French  opera  was  another 
American,  Miss  Bessie  Abott,  who  has 
also  appeared  as  Gilda  in  "Rigoletto." 
Her  beautiful  voice  is  well  trained,  but  it 
is  rather  light  for  so  large  an  auditorium, 
and  as  an  actress  she  is  mediocre.  She 
lacks  the  ambition,  the  determination  to 
reach  the  top,  which  is  one  of  Miss  Far- 
rar's chief  assets. 

It  is  likely  that  Miss  Berta  Morena, 
who  arrived  for  the  last  four  weeks  of 
the  season,  will  prove  as  popular  an  art- 

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